London, 11/11/2014. Today LSE (London School of Economics) presented a public lecture called "The Need to Censor Our Dreams" hosted by the author of the book "Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism", Professor Slavoj Zizek (Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian-born political philosopher - Marxism, German idealism and Lacanian psychoanalysis - and cultural critic, a senior researcher at the Institute for...more »

Professor Slavoj Zizek.

London, 11/11/2014. Today LSE (London School of Economics) presented a public lecture called "The Need to Censor Our Dreams" hosted by the author of the book "Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism", Professor Slavoj Zizek (Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian-born political philosopher - Marxism, German idealism and Lacanian psychoanalysis - and cultural critic, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University and International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and a visiting professor at a number of American Universities: Columbia, Princeton, New School for Social Research, New York University, University of Michigan). He writes widely on a diverse range of topics, including political theory, dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and art, film theory, cultural studies, theology, and psychoanalysis). Chair of the event was Dr Purna Sen (Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Affairs at the LSE; Chair of the board of the Kaleidoscope Trust, a member of the Board of RISE which is a domestic violence service provider and an Advisor to Justice for Gay Africans; she has served as Head of Human Rights for the Commonwealth Secretariat and as Director for the Asia-Pacific Program at Amnesty International).